Aperture 2 and the problem with the watermark in the Mobile Me Web Gallery. Unfortunately there is still a little problem within Aperture and the watermark, but here is an easy workaround.
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Gunther Deichmann - if you look closely
you see a faint watermark on the
left
Inside the Preference panel, Screenshot of the
actual water mark settings
On Sep 5, 2008, at 6:57
PM, Ian Watts wrote:
Your Name: Ian Watts
Your Email: ian@wattsphotography.co.uk
Subject: Aperture 2 and MobileMe
Message: Is it possible to attach watermarks to
images exported to MobileMe galleries?
Various web forums think not...
Thanks,
Ian
On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Gunther Deichmann wrote:
Hi Ian,
Unfortunately there is still a little problem within
Aperture 2 and
the watermark, Aperture always had some
minor glitches with the watermark, dont know why the
Engineers at Apple have not fully addressed this
issue. I guess with anything fairly new problems will
occur and down the road this one will also go away
for sure.
But here is an easy workaround since my images are
only for the web and in Low res., it is easy and fast
In the Preference
panel you choose and set your setting for the
Watermark, experiment a bit and find what you like
best, the opacity slider, left or right this is all
up to you.
Back in your Aperture
Browser choose and select your images you like
for your Mobile Me
Gallery.
Now you simply export them all in one go to your desk
top in to a folder using jpg low resolution, I
usually choose the Email medium
setting, plenty good enough for viewing and the web,
but to small for serious reproduction. Plus you have
a watermark on them now anyway. Now you import the
whole folder and create your Mobile Me Web Gallery and all
your images have now the copyright mark.
Ok, I know it is a little work around but it is a lot
faster than using Photoshop and applying the
watermarks one by one.
Easy since we are only dealing with low res files
anyway, I hope I was of some help to you and please
do not hesitate in contacting me if you have any
other problems, good luck and all the best, and let
me know if it worked out.
Have a nice day,
Cheers Gunther
PS. I dont watermark raw or high res. files since
they go out to clients I know and can trust.
From: ian@achievers.co.uk
Subject: Re: Aperture 2 and
MobileMe
Date: September 5, 2008 8:53:19 PM GMT+08:00
To: gdeichmann@mac.com
Hi Gunther,
Thank you for your speedy response.
What a pity! I would have thought that the most
common need for watermarking is for web galleries, so
it is a shame that this feature wasn't included in
Aperture 2.1... perhaps it will be upgraded at some
stage to include this?
I have done what you suggested and it works fine -
thank you - if a little time consuming!
Thanks again for your help,
Ian
Watts Photography
ian@wattsphotography.co.uk
